Microformats: The What, Where, Why, and How
Microformats may be small, but they are starting to appear everywhere. You likely visit sites daily that are enabled with microformats. They are used to make contact details, events, reviews, and other everyday data more available to you as both a user and as a developer.
Learn what sites are already using of microformats and how you can take advantage of them. Also learn how easy it is to enable your site with microformats for others to use by making each page of your site an API with only minor markup changes.
In this session you will learn: what exactly microformats are, where they can found on the web, why they are a useful addition to a site and (most importantly) how to add them to yours.
About Mark Meeker
Mark Meeker is an Architect on the UI Engineering team at Orbitz Worldwide. He leads the the UI Engineering team responsible for building the presentation tier of online travel sites Orbitz and CheapTickets in the Americas and ebookers in Europe. His focus is on building rich, interactive and internationalized sites that are standards-based and accessible. Previous to Orbitz, he helped develop Britannica.com and earned a M.S. in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He rarely blogs, but when he does it is at http://markmeeker.com.
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